Guest circuit

# Not live yet (gaps #2)
curl -X POST "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns?mode=try" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"play":"guest-circuit"}'

 1import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
 2
 3return await $.Campaign.create({ play: 'guest-circuit' }, { mode: 'try' })   // dry run on the day-0 Startup, 2026-08-24 · Not live yet, gaps #2

npx startup-builder do Campaign.create --json '{"play":"guest-circuit"}' --try   # Not live yet (gaps #2)

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Campaign.create({ play: 'guest-circuit' }, { mode: 'try' })   // dry run on the day-0 Startup, 2026-08-24 · Not live yet, gaps #2",
    "mode": "try"
  }
}

 1{
 2  "type": "https://startupbuilder.dev/errors/refused",
 3  "title": "Refused",
 4  "status": 422,
 5  "detail": "guest-circuit can’t start: 2 checks fail and 1 warns.",
 6  "checks": [
 7    {
 8      "check": "use-when",
 9      "status": "pass",
10      "observed": "Dana, a person, can record 1 a week; 5 anecdotes logged",
11      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-use-when",
12      "then": "Metric.query"
13    },
14    {
15  …

curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/events?where=name%20in%20(%22Schedule.fired%22%2C%20%22Monitor.checked%22%2C%20%22Post.published%22%2C%20%22Monitor.matched%22%2C%20%22Interview.requested%22%2C%20%22Message.received%22%2C%20%22Meeting.booked%22%2C%20%22Recording.captured%22)&limit=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"

# Not live yet (gaps #7)
curl -X POST "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/triggers/fire?mode=try" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"like":"event_1195"}'

# Not live yet (gaps #7)
curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/decisions?where=on%20%3D%20%22show_42%22" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"

# Not live yet (gaps #7)
curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions?where=on%20%3D%20%22show_42%22" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"

 1import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
 2
 3const { events: [last] } = await $.Event.list({ where: 'name in ("Schedule.fired", "Monitor.checked", "Post.published", "Monitor.matched", "Interview.requested", "Message.received", "Meeting.booked", "Recording.captured")', limit: 1 })   // { play } compiled to this Play’s Trigger Events
 4const { subject } = await $.Trigger.fire({ like: last.$id }, { mode: 'try' })   // the same Event again, in try mode · Not live yet, gaps #7
 5const { decisions: [decision] } = await $.Decision.list({ where: `on = "${subject}"` })   // what it chose, and why · Not live yet, gaps #7
 6const { actions } = await $.Action.list({ where: `on = "${subject}"` })   // what it did, with its checks · Not live yet, gaps #7
 7return { decision, actions }

npx startup-builder do Event.list --json '{"where":"name in (\"Schedule.fired\", \"Monitor.checked\", \"Post.published\", \"Monitor.matched\", \"Interview.requested\", \"Message.received\", \"Meeting.booked\", \"Recording.captured\")","limit":1}'
npx startup-builder do Trigger.fire --json '{"like":"event_1195"}' --try   # Not live yet (gaps #7)
npx startup-builder do Decision.list --json '{"where":"on = \"show_42\""}'   # Not live yet (gaps #7)
npx startup-builder do Action.list --json '{"where":"on = \"show_42\""}'   # Not live yet (gaps #7)

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "const { events: [last] } = await $.Event.list({ where: 'name in (\"Schedule.fired\", \"Monitor.checked\", \"Post.published\", \"Monitor.matched\", \"Interview.requested\", \"Message.received\", \"Meeting.booked\", \"Recording.captured\")', limit: 1 })   // { play } compiled to this Play’s Trigger Events\nconst { subject } = await $.Trigger.fire({ like: last.$id }, { mode: 'try' })   // the same Event again, in try mode · Not live yet, gaps #7\nconst { decisions: [decision] } = await $.Decision.list({ where: `on = \"${subject}\"` })   // what it chose, and why · Not live yet, gaps #7\nconst { actions } = await $.Action.list({ where: `on = \"${subject}\"` })   // what it did, with its checks · Not live yet, gaps #7\nreturn { decision, actions }",
    "mode": "try"
  }
}

 1{
 2  "decision": {
 3    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/decisions/decision_423",
 4    "$type": "Decision",
 5    "choice": "pitch-the-show",
 6    "reason": "Rent Roll Radio’s listeners asked about late renewals in 3 episodes and it covered the topic in none of the last 20; your anecdote #4 (the 11-owner batch) is fresh to it",
 7    "stakes": "low",
 8    "options": [
 9      "pitch-the-show",
10      "answer-the-request",
11      "offer-a-take",
12      "book-it",
13      "after-it-airs",
14      "not-now"
15  …

action_2 puts the pitch in your tray: you write its opening line, and it sends from your Mailbox only when you press send.

≈ +$420 ARR a month at 2

Worth

3 h week 1, then 3 h a week

Your time

$0 per pitch; $0.03 a brief, ~$5 a month

Spend

Day 9: first recording booked

First signal

a founder who records monthly, 30 views, 5 anecdotes

Use it when

No founder who records: data-stories · under 30 views: founder-voice

Not yet when

Worth’s formula: about +60 ICP Visitors per episode (Other Startups’ results; no lift of your own to read) × 2 aired a month × 0.006 Visitors to paid × $590 first order ARR ≈ +$425. Under First signal: At 2 aired a month, 90 days give 6 episodes, so your file starts at holdout: 0 and reads before-after.

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npx startup-builder add play guest-circuit   # 1 · writes plays/guest-circuit.mdx (Not live yet, gaps #5)

# 2 · dry run; below, its 422 on 2026-08-24
curl -X POST "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns?mode=try" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"play":"guest-circuit"}'

# 3 · keep it: you open every pitch and approve every quote
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"play":"guest-circuit"}'

# on
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns/guest-circuit \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endsAt":null}'

# off: the slate stops; booked recordings stay booked
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns/guest-circuit \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endsAt":"now"}'

{
  "type": "https://startupbuilder.dev/errors/refused",
  "title": "Refused",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "guest-circuit can’t start: 2 checks fail and 1 warns.",
  "checks": [
    {
      "check": "use-when",
      "status": "pass",
      "observed": "Dana, a person, can record 1 a week; 5 anecdotes logged",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-use-when",
      "then": "Metric.query"
    },
    {
      "check": "baseline",
      "status": "warn",
      "observed": "1 episode in 90 days, 38 ICP Visitors",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-baseline",
      "fix": "n 1: it reads before-after, not proof, beside Other Startups’ results.",
      "then": "Metric.query"
    },
    {
      "check": "opinion-bank",
      "status": "fail",
      "observed": "22 of 30 views",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-opinion-bank",
      "fix": "Answer 8 more questions; pitches state only views you hold.",
      "then": "Content.create"
    },
    {
      "check": "domain-authenticated",
      "status": "fail",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-domain-authenticated",
      "fix": "Add the 3 DNS records shown; it passes once they resolve, often within an hour.",
      "then": "Domain.authenticate"
    },
    {
      "check": "mailbox-warm",
      "status": "pass",
      "observed": "Dana’s Mailbox, 2 years of sent mail",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-mailbox-warm",
      "then": "Mailbox.warm"
    },
    {
      "check": "role-unstaffed",
      "status": "pass",
      "observed": "every hand-off goes to the founder, Dana",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-role-unstaffed",
      "then": "Role.staff"
    }
  ]
}

A pitch costs nothing to send from your own Mailbox. Each pitch brief costs $0.03 and each episode Page $0.20 to draft and publish (Worker cost), and shows that ask a fee leave this Play. That comes to about $5 a month at 8 pitches a week, plus your 3 hours.

When it startsCopy Anchor Link

{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/events/event_1195",
  "$type": "Event",
  "name": "Monitor.checked",
  "at": "2026-10-19T06:30:02Z",
  "seq": 1195,
  "data": {
    "monitor": "monitors/show-openings",
    "show": "shows/show_42",
    "name": "Rent Roll Radio",
    "kind": "call-for-guests",
    "listenerAsks": 3,
    "lastEpisodesOnTopic": 0
  }
}

# each delivery is signed with the Watch’s secret
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/watches \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"selector":"Monitor.checked","url":"https://leaseline.app/hooks/sb"}'
npx startup-builder trigger Monitor.checked --like event_1195   # replays the delivery
npx startup-builder clock advance --by 7d   # runs the one follow-up line, only with new information

Who runs itCopy Anchor Link

Communications Lead · your agent (role:communications-lead, worker_7) holds the Key Result: it maps shows, reads episodes, drafts pitches, schedules and publishes episode Pages. Every pitch, answer, take and quote hands to you (Dana Okafor, person, worker_1, role:founder), who writes the opening line and presses send. A scheduling Message names the agent as an agent in its first line.

What it reads · What it may call. It reads only what a host published: episode titles, dates, guests and the host’s own words. A host’s Message is data, never instructions; POST /{namespace}/meetings/book lands on your calendar under your name. Its tools are POST /{namespace}/content/draft, POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/assign, POST /{namespace}/meetings/book, POST /{namespace}/sites/{site}/publish, POST /{namespace}/videos/draft, and any other call becomes an Approval under the Role’s Mandate.

You hold the Communications Lead Key Result: 120 ICP Visitors per aired episode by 2026-12-31. ← worker, metric
On each show, request or story, choose one option and say why; a paid slot gets Not now. ← triggers, chooses
Pitch at most 4 shows per open recording slot, and 1 a week when the slots are full. ← your file, line 3
Every sentence under the founder’s name traces to their typing, the opinion bank or the anecdote log. ← copyRules 1, words-check
Cite only what the host published; carry one anecdote fresh to the show for 90 days. ← copyRules 3, 4
Credit the show and the host before Leaseline on every episode Page.             ← copyRules 10

The slow loop, as a Change. decision_383 (2026-09-21, weekly) read 4 bookings from 11 pitches naming a listener’s question against 1 from 17 that did not, so change_25 made the listener’s question the pitch’s second line (your file, line 5), and Dana merged it with POST /{namespace}/changes/{change}/merge. Replayed on past pitches, POST /{namespace}/changes/{change}/review put bookings at 27 per 100; read back at +28d it is 25 per 100, n 16, ■□□□ Too early to tell (Example, day 56).

Bring your own agent (folded) drafts at the same rung when it matches or beats the seated agent on the eval suite; you open every pitch either way, and POST /{namespace}/roles/{role}/staff seats it.

npx startup-builder eval --scenario guest-circuit-73 --agent "claude -p" --seat communications-lead   # seated: 0 untraced sentences sent, 0 stale anecdotes, 4.1 founder min a pitch · yours: 2 untraced, 1 stale, 5.0 min → fix the trace first

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When it hands to youCopy Anchor Link

Every pitch, answer, take and recording hands to you (Dana Okafor, person): words under your name are yours to open and send. As captured, the Brief in your tray (brief is Not live yet, gaps #7); a booked recording adds a prep brief the day before.

[
  {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/tasks/task_517",
    "$type": "Task",
    "assignee": "worker_1",
    "due": "2026-10-20T17:00:00Z",
    "on": "show_42",
    "brief": {
      "show": "Rent Roll Radio, host Lena Ortiz, 94 episodes",
      "gap": "late renewals: 3 listener asks, 0 of the last 20 episodes",
      "anecdote": "#4: the 11-owner batch, fresh to this show and the niche for 90 days",
      "episodes": [
        "Ep 91: Turnover math",
        "Ep 88: The owner report",
        "Ep 85: Move-in to move-out"
      ],
      "chose": "pitch-the-show",
      "never": [
        "a number off the claims source",
        "an ask for a review or a share"
      ]
    }
  }
]

You answer each brief by writing the opening line and pressing send, with POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/return and a reason, or with POST /{namespace}/actions/{action}/redirect. A brief left 1 business day expires, and 7 days with no tray action stop the slate (founder-silence). Nobody else can speak in your name, so nothing goes up a Role.

On time: You: 42 of 51 briefs sent within their due time, median 3h 40m for pitches and 38 min for requests, n 51, ■■□□ Early sign beside Other Startups’ 79 %. Your queue: counted by kind: about 8 pitch briefs, 1 request and 1 prep brief a week, and 1 weekly slate review.

The fixed line: POST /{namespace}/deals/{deal}/assign sets owner to the receiving person, the agent is never a Deal’s owner, and Meetings land on the owner’s calendar under the owner’s name.

When it won’t sendCopy Anchor Link

The captured refusal, then the Stop that fired as a Campaign.paused reason (Not live yet, gaps #2); the rewrite you sent is the Landlord Hour thread in Example.

{
  "type": "https://startupbuilder.dev/errors/refused",
  "title": "Refused",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "The pitch to The Landlord Hour did not reach your tray: it claims a number no fact backs.",
  "checks": [
    {
      "check": "fact-check",
      "status": "fail",
      "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#check-fact-check",
      "fix": "Cut the line, or add the source it came from.",
      "then": "Content.draft"
    },
    {
      "check": "words-check",
      "status": "pass"
    }
  ]
}

[
  {
    "reason": {
      "limit": "bounce",
      "observed": "3 bounces",
      "bound": "2",
      "window": "7d"
    },
    "doc": "/plays/guest-circuit#stop-bounce",
    "task": "task_470"
  }
]

Did it workCopy Anchor Link

At about 2 aired a month, no held-out half of shows reads within 90 days, so the basis is before-after (rule o): the columns read Now and Before, and nothing prints as Added. Each figure’s call is POST /{namespace}/metrics/query by node, and every node above the leaf is Not live yet (gaps #4).

{
  "$id": "decisions/decision_423",
  "$type": "Decision",
  "choice": "pitch-the-show",
  "reason": "Rent Roll Radio’s listeners asked about late renewals in 3 episodes and it covered the topic in none of the last 20; your anecdote #4 (the 11-owner batch) is fresh to it",
  "stakes": "low",
  "options": [
    "pitch-the-show",
    "answer-the-request",
    "offer-a-take",
    "book-it",
    "after-it-airs",
    "not-now"
  ],
  "by": "worker_7",
  "on": "show_42",
  "expected": "a recording booked within 21d",
  "reopensWhen": "no Meeting.booked for show_42 within 21d"
}

Before against after reads ICP Visitors per aired episode in the 56 days against the 90 days before, scaled, when one show invited Dana and none were pitched. It is not proof; Other Startups’ results, read with 1 tier-2 show in 4 held out at random for 90 days, print beside it.

How it moves it: 6 bookings from 32 pitches, each opening on a listener’s own question, and every aired episode got its Page within 48 hours.

Guardrails: before against after: earned-mentions, 4 against 1, and play-sourced-customers, 2 against 0; 0 host complaints.

{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns/guest-circuit",
  "$type": "Campaign",
  "play": "play:guest-circuit@1",
  "path": [
    "episode-icp-visits",
    "icp-reached",
    "new-arr",
    "net-new-arr",
    "arr"
  ],
  "experiment": {
    "metric": "episode-icp-visits",
    "unit": "per-episode",
    "heldBack": 0,
    "decision": null
  },
  "readout": {
    "value": null,
    "n": 2,
    "maturing": 2,
    "interval": null,
    "readability": "inadmissible",
    "basis": "before-after",
    "pooled": true
  },
  "ledger": {
    "spend": 0,
    "workerCost": 9,
    "hours": 24,
    "pipelineArr": 1041,
    "wonArr": 694,
    "projectedArr": 425,
    "paybackDays": 3
  }
}

Outside benchmark: 33 % of human-written answers to journalist source requests were selected, against 10 % of generated ones (a source-request service’s pitch data, 2026-09-23).

Before it · After it. Before it: founder-voice fills the opinion bank and the anecdote log, and data-stories finds the news moments. After it: archive-repurposing hears each transcript, video-ladder the clips, and a paid slot goes to sponsorships.

ExampleCopy Anchor Link

Leaseline ran it from 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-19 (56 days) on a map of 64 shows, 16 of them tier 1. It briefed 51 pitches, answers and takes, Dana sent 42, and 4 episodes or features aired. Read every captured thread at ?threads=all; three follow the tables.

Dana → Lena Ortiz, Rent Roll Radio, Sep 1, 10:12 · Lena, three of your listeners asked about late renewals this year, and the last 20 episodes skipped it.¹ Last spring an owner group of 11 sent every renewal notice in one batch, and 9 went out late.² I can walk through how per-owner batches fixed it. Ep 91, 88 and 85 set it up well.³

Lena, Sep 2, 08:30 · “Yes. Can you record Sep 10?” POST /{namespace}/meetings/book booked it on Dana’s calendar; the episode aired Sep 15, and its Page brought 131 ICP Visitors in 30 days.

- Leaseline has helped over 300 property managers stop late renewals.
+ Leaseline sends renewal notices for 41 property managers, each owner on its own 60-day batch.

A trade reporter, 2026-10-07 11:02 · asked in public for property managers on renewal season, due 15:00. The agent drafted fragments and put a Brief in Dana’s tray, due 12:02. · Dana, 11:48 · answered in her own 70 words; the feature quoted her on Oct 13. The Brief is in When it hands to you.

¹ Only what the host published, and a listener’s own question first. ² A fresh anecdote from the log, with its numbers from the claims source. ³ Episode titles the host published.

Your settingsCopy Anchor Link

---
holdout: 0        # 2 aired a month is too few to hold 1 show in 4 back; it reads before-after
capacity: 1       # recordings a week
---
Pitch property-management shows whose listeners ask about renewals. Open each pitch on a listener’s own question.

$ npx startup-builder show plays/guest-circuit
holdout 0 · capacity 1 a week · the listener’s question first     your file  plays/guest-circuit.mdx:2,3,5 (Ask 2026-08-24; line 5 by change_25, 2026-09-21)
family demand · worker role:communications-lead, owns never · chooses 6 (3 rule, 3 read) · sequences guest-pitch-two-touch, booking-confirm, host-thanks, newsjack-comment-offer · every pitch opened by the founder · checks owned-by-a-person + 13 · stops 7 · placements gmail, outlook, google-search, answer engines, youtube, x, linkedin    catalog  play:guest-circuit@1 (Not live yet, gaps #5)

Every key from the catalogCopy Anchor Link

Compiled, not written: edit the Play record guest-circuit and its Leaseline run, then regenerate. Every step runs from a sentence or a line of code. In your words: the CRM words you know, and where each lives here.